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insiderPROFILES An interview with Luis Neves, Deutsche Telekom In this Q&A with Luis Neves, Deutsche Telekom’s VP of Corporate Responsibility, find out about the relationship between sustainability and economic performance at Deutsche Telekom. Neves provides an up-close view of the company’s sustainability efforts, including a popular mobile phone take-back program, and the ensuing benefits.
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insiderPROFILES Evan J. Albright After acquiring a US-based company, GILSA, a Mexico-based dairy manufacturer and distributor, committed itself to ensure smooth business process integration — internally and for longstanding retailers and customers — by building a flexible data system to serve its growing, global customer base. CIO Mauricio Castillo shares how the company was able to keep these new customers operating in a business-as-usual manner.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Kristine Erickson
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Yosh Eisbart, SAP Service Line Director, COMSYS Many people still are unfamiliar with the crucial role of an Integration Manager (IM) for their changing SAP landscapes — or they don’t yet fully understand the relevance of this critical position. This article explains how an IM maintains the corporate vision and system integrity of your SAP environment, and why every SAP customer should have one.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Over time, companies have come to rely on their IT departments to cope with increasingly complex processes and systems. SAP NetWeaver Business Process Management (SAP NetWeaver BPM) introduces a new environment in which business and IT can collaborate to change processes without losing business integrity. This offering allows the business user to get back into the driver’s seat when it comes to improving and adapting business processes.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Davin Wilfrid During your implementation project, is it best to customize your software to fit your existing business processes or to change your processes to fit the new system? Endeca Technologies chose a unique combined approach for its 22-week SAP ERP 6.0 implementation -- and kept customization to a minimum while at the same time reducing financial close time by 30%, supporting revenue growth with no additional hires, and improving the accuracy of expense management.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Raghavendra Subbarao Does your IT team fully understand why composite applications can help the business — and how to create these innovative and adaptive applications? This article shares the personal experiences of an early adopter of SAP NetWeaver Composition Environment, sheds light on the cost vs. benefit of using the solution’s modeling capabilities, and points out pitfalls to avoid in your own implementations.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Joseph Raynus Once you have collected strategic planning data, are you prepared to act on it? Every enterprise needs an internal framework to execute on its business planning management. Follow a step-by-step methodology to coordinate and align business processes and improve control over executing enterprise strategy.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Puneet Suppal Enterprise borders are becoming more fluid, requirements are changing dramatically, and processes need to be more responsive. As a result, every company must have robust process governance that requires them to think beyond traditional IT management.
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SAP NetWeaver Magazine Puneet Suppal Putting business processes — rather than siloed solutions — at the core of your enterprise means preparing employees for change as well. This column offers tips for senior managers who want to build a more business process-oriented company and shows them how to cultivate business process experts — the people who support this transformation.
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